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Peace, nonviolent resistance, conscience and conscientious objection

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September 2020

September 07, 2020

A Beautiful Memoir of Waging Peace

Is a history of the Catholic Worker movement even possible, given the innately anarchic nature...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

Guest Post: A Letter from a TLM Catholic Who Stands with BLM

The author of this guest post, Jacob Robbins (a nom de plume), is the son...

June 2020

June 26, 2020

Where Are the Churches?

Image via www.nd.edu What year are we living in — or reliving? That is, what year of...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

“There is no such thing as just war.”

In less than two weeks, a group of seven Catholic peace activists will be put...

October 03, 2019

Sacrifice and Reconciliation in Africa

In 2008, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan priest born in 1960 of Rwandan parents (one...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

“Our Best Hope to Avoid As Much Violence As Possible”

The polarization of American politics is reflected in a like polarization of politics around the...

June 26, 2018

There Is No Immigration Crisis, But There Is a Crisis in The American Catholic Church

There is no immigration crisis on the southern border. That's a lie. There is, however,...

June 15, 2018

“The Christianity of This Land”

The forcible separation of children from their parents has a long history in the United...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

Ten Strong Things

Wisdom from the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 10a). Ten strong things have been created in...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Good News: Priest Out as US House Chaplain

My question is this: Why the hell is a Catholic priest serving as chaplain to...

April 05, 2018

The Mindless Menace of Violence

Fifty years ago today, on the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

January 2017

January 09, 2017

A Lawless Man

On Friday, January 20th, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Good News & Great Joy

To all people of good will fighting for social, economic, and environmental justice, defending the...

December 23, 2016

Roasting Marshmallows at the Apocalypse

[A review of Nothing to Vote For: The Futility of the American Electoral Process, by Daniel...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Blessed Are the Dissidents

"Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear...

November 14, 2016

Shelter From the Storm

The truth is, I'm going to be just fine during the Trump Administration. I 'm holding...

November 11, 2016

Radically Catholic in the Age of Trump

For several years now, I've attended daily Mass at St. Clare Church, where the average...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Novena for Peace: August 29 – September 6, For an End to the Injustice of Exploitation

Join us at Novena For Peace! General Intentions: For an end to the injustice of exploitation....

August 20, 2016

The Novena for Peace Begins Today

Eighty-one days of prayer for justice, peace, and racial reconciliation in the United States. We...

August 03, 2016

The Real Threat to Religious Liberty

Perhaps the greatest threat Trump presents to religious liberty is his abiding promise to form...

August 01, 2016

Praying for Miracles

Every summer for the past 19 years, the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

Turning America Around

In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...

May 24, 2016

Preparing for President Trump

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 4

[This post concludes Paul Grenier’s dialogue on torture and solidarity. You may also read part...

April 18, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 3

[This post is a continuation of Paul Grenier’s dialogue on torture and solidarity. The first...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 2

[This post is a continuation of Paul Grenier's dialogue on torture and solidarity. The first...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 1

The Participants Ambassador: Between stints at universities and think tanks, has enjoyed several high posts...

February 18, 2016

Now that’s more like it…

All over the United States, poverty and homelessness have been and are being criminalized (as...

February 15, 2016

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

This started out as a post on the joy of receiving seed catalogues in deep...